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Reliability and validity of Healthy Fitness Measurement Scale Version1.0 (HFMS V1.0) in Chinese elderly people

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2021
Purpose We examined the reliability and validity of the Healthy Fitness Measurement Scale Version 1.0 (HFMS V1.0) specifically on elderly people in China.
Qian Liu   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Solar-trackable super-wicking black metal panel for photothermal water sanitation

open access: yesNature Sustainability, 2020
Solar-based water sanitation is an environmentally friendly process for obtaining clean water that requires efficient light-to-heat-to-vapour generation.
S. Singh   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Access to basic drinking water and sanitation in Africa: Does financial inclusion matter?

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences, 2022
A major challenge confronting most countries in the world including those in Africa, is lack of access to basic drinking water and sanitation. This has given birth to several studies investigating the factors that influence access to basic drinking water
Mustapha Immurana   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Equity implications for sanitation from recent health and nutrition evidence

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2017
Recent evidence points to the possible underestimation of the health and nutrition impact of sanitation. Community sanitation coverage may first need to reach thresholds in the order of 60% or higher, to optimize health and nutrition gains.
A. A. Cronin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Attainment of water and sanitation goals: a review and agenda for research

open access: yesSustainable Water Resources Management, 2022
One-fourth of the global population is without basic drinking water and half of the global population lacks sanitation facilities. The attainment of water and sanitation targets is difficult due to administrative, operational, political, transborder ...
Sanjeet Singh, R. Jayaram
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Households' access to safely managed sanitation facility and its determinant factors in Jimma town, Ethiopia

open access: yesJournal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 2022
Safe sanitation service is vital to a healthy life and promoting well-being. However, information on the proportion of households' access to safely managed sanitation services and its determinants in urban resource-limited settings is particularly ...
Dereje Oljira Donacho   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Poverty, sanitation, and Leptospira transmission pathways in residents from four Brazilian slums

open access: yesPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021
Residents of urban slums suffer from a high burden of zoonotic diseases due to individual, socioeconomic, and environmental factors. We conducted a cross-sectional sero-survey in four urban slums in Salvador, Brazil, to characterize how poverty and ...
H. Khalil   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The potential of B-Star snacks (banana and tempeh nastar) to prevent muscle fatigue

open access: yesAcTion: Aceh Nutrition Journal, 2022
Muscle fatigue is a common problem experienced by athletes when undergoing exercise. Sports snacks are an effective solution for preventing them because they can be consumed between workouts without requiring a particular time.
Ni Made Dewantari   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

High case fatality cholera outbreak in Western Kenya, August 2010

open access: yesThe Pan African Medical Journal, 2013
INTRODUCTION: Cholera is a disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholera and has been an important public health problem since its first pandemic in 1817. Kenya has had numerous outbreaks of cholera ever since it was first detected there during 1971. In
Dickens Onyango   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Water, Sanitation, and Women's Empowerment: A systematic review and qualitative metasynthesis

open access: yesmedRxiv, 2021
Background Water and sanitation programs historically have focused on women's instrumental value in improving effectiveness and impact of programs, though focus is shifting to consider how programming and conditions may contribute to women's empowerment ...
B. Caruso   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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